The Supreme Court has refused to review its 2018 judgment which decriminalised adultery.
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It upheld a September 2018 judgment by Constitution Bench which had struck adultery out of the penal statute book.
The original judgment found that Section 497 (adultery) of the Indian Penal Code cannot “command” married couples to remain loyal to each other for the fear of penal punishment.
Two individuals may part if one cheats, but to attach criminality to infidelity is going too far.
The court had reasoned that there was no data whatsoever to support claims that abolition of adultery as a crime would result in “chaos in sexual morality” or an increase of divorce.
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